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Summary: The best Connery film!
Review: This is the best Bond Sean Connery was in. I really like the action! Great! And you finally get to see Ernest Blofeld! (Mike Myers got the idea for the look of Dr. Evil in "Austin Powers" from Blofeld.) A nice song, too. The title perfectly tells what happens to Bond, he gets killed, and gets another life. A great movie!!!
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Summary: Oriental caper climaxes well, then ends flaccidly
Review: The research for this book is admirable. Reading it,one really almost feels as if he's taken his own personal tour of Japan.The cultural study is very interesting as well, but the story itself drags a bit.Once Bond lands on Kissy Suzuki's(where does Fleming come up with these names!) Island, things move at a snail's pace. After "Bondo-san" lands on Shatterhand's island, though, the excitement picks up quite nicely. The almost dreamlike quality of the island of death was really fascinating.As the action led to the final showdown, the suspense grew, and I found the climax riveting and quite well-envisioned. The epilogue , however, would have been best if it had been left unwritten.What a flaccid denoument.All in all, an enjoyable read, and it's detractions should not keep one from checking it out.Welcome to Japan!
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Summary: Forget it
Review: For me, that can't be Bond! After writing such a masterpiece as OHMSS, Ian Fleming did this to all of us: No action, no fun- where is James Bond?
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Summary: Sean Connery Is James Bond!!
Review: The fifth bond movie in the series and the second best Connery film (after Goldfinger). It's got the lot. The girls, the gadgets, the first apperance of Ernst Stavro Blofeld, a fantastic score by the amazing John Barry, the enormous sets (that naturally get blown to pieces) and 007 gets killed, and then married in that order!! Great stuff proving once again that Thomas Sean Connery of Fountainbridge, Edinburgh is STILL licenced to thrill as the ONLY James Bond worth watching! Sorry Roger!
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Summary: The Ending Almost Gave Me a Heart Attack!
Review: Why? Why, did he do this to Bond? He left the all powerful Bond, without a memory in a strange place, and everyone including M, thought he was dead? What's the deal? However, this books earns it's two stars from the events just before the end. When, Bond sneaks around Dr. Shatterhand's (Blofeld's) castle. I'm just glad the ending in the book, wasn't portrayed in the movie. Now, that I think about it though, this book is absolutly nothing like the movie!
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Summary: ANY SEAN CONNERY MOVIE IS A MUST SEE!!!
Review: UNFORTUNATELY 5 IS NOT ENOUGH STARS FOR HIS FILMS. CONNERY SET THE MOOD FOR THE BOND SAGA AND NOONE HAS YET TO TOUCH HIS BOND STANDARD.
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Summary: A gripping storyline, but an unsatisfying ending.
Review: Ian Fleming's James Bond is a timeless character and in, "You Only Live Twice", he embarks on an exciting and gripping mission. However, the indestructable James Bond of old just doesn't seem the same. Fleming's story just lacks the punch that made his other books page-turners. Finally I was disapointed with the end of the story, it didn't seem to have enough closure and it made me, a devoted Bond fan, ask "why" Fleming would do this to his indestructable Bond.
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Summary: Quite An Ending!
Review: This book, for those of you who would like to see the basis for the movie, is not like the movie at all. The only sameness is the Japan setting. The story: James Bond is a mess after his wife was murdered. His boss considers firing him, but changes his mind and gives Bond a different kind of assignment: to get a device known as "the vacuum cleaner" from the Japanese. After much interesting negotiation, Bond is told that he can have the machine in exchange for a favor. Bond accepts the terms, and soon realizes that this favor involves an old enemy: Ernst Stavro Blofeld. This book was well-written, and was Fleming's last finished novel. The new characters are great, as well. The only trouble is that the book reads too much as a travelogue of Japan. The ending will surprise many. Personally, I think Fleming should have stopped here, and not gone on to the disastrous Man With the Golden Gun.
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Summary: Very Entertaining
Review: In this entry, we finally get to meet Ernst Stavro Blofeld, though we meet two others in later films, since Blofeld has as many faces as Felix Leiter! Connery is great as always as James Bond, and he is complemented by a great supporting cast of Japanese actors. The Japan setting is different and refreshing. Even the opening gun-barrel trademark has an oriental-sounding musical variation on the Bond theme. The plot: SPECTRE has taken to hijacking space capsules, particularly American and Russian vessels, and plans to, as Blofeld puts it, "inaugurate a little war". Bond must infiltrate Blofeld's (played by Donald Pleasance) fortress with the help of ninjas. The fight scene with the ninjas and SPECTRE troopers is spectacular. Note: this is Connery's last Bond for a little while, until 1971.
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Summary: A great action thriller film
Review: An exiting adventure that leads to space, "volcanoes", and much more. A great film for the entire family. Spy-like action. A classic 007.
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